The Cane Sisters and the rainy day (picts, picts, picts)

[baymule]

I love my Wyandottes! The first 2 hens I got were Silver Laced Wyandottes. I bought some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes last summer that didn't make the breeder's show stock cut. I even got 2 splash BLRW's and named them Splish 'n Splash.

Have you hugged your chicken today?

 

[canesisters]

OH!! LOVE the red and white ones!!! Is that the splash??? When I got Lido, I was trying for blue or splash. My silvers are NOT huggable. But Lido loves to be held - or just perch on people.

 

[ninnymary]

Cane, now I really want a speckle sussex. Too bad I have to wait. I will only get 1 because I'm getting 5 total and there are others I want. I too want a variety of colorful hens. I thought Candy was some type of lavendar "something". She sure has that color. I have 2 easter eggers right now, 1 lays the green egg and the other the blue egg. I like to show them to people who think eggs are only white and brown!

Mary

 

[ninnymary]

Bay, your blue laced red wyndotte is prettier than mine.

Mary

 

[journey11]

What beautiful chickies you guys have! All fat and fluffy and healthy, just what a hen should be.

Now I am missing the mud around here, believe it or not. I've enjoyed looking at the pretty snow, but I am really starting to worry about my girls. They have been cooped up almost continually over 2 weeks between the bitter cold and the snow not melting. I haven't gotten an egg in about 10 days now. I thought maybe I should snow shovel around their coop so they'll at least have a little island to go out on. :/

 

[baymule]

The red with the light blue lacing is the splash. Aren't they pretty? The darker one standing on the deck is the correct color, dark red with dark smokey blue lacing. These breeder Wyandottes made my feed store SLW's look pathetic. I sold 5 of the 6 SLW's I had and only kept the one in the picture above because she lets my grand daughter lug her around.

@journey11 I put leaves in the coop and run, to put a pad between the girls and all the mud. I will stop and pick up bags of leaves after people rake their yards. I have bags of leaves stacked up! The run is about 1 1/2 feet deep in leaves and this is after the snow, ice, rain and the girls packing them down.

 

[journey11]

That's a great idea, @baymule . I will have to think ahead next year. Maybe I will get a bale of straw for now instead, then rake it back up to use as mulch later (coop is in yard...they go everywhere!)

 

[Smart Red]

I've enjoyed looking at the pretty snow, but I am really starting to worry about my girls. They have been cooped up almost continually over 2 weeks between the bitter cold and the snow not melting. I thought maybe I should snow shovel around their coop so they'll at least have a little island to go out on. :/

My flock this year won't venture out into the snow either, but last year's birds were a bit more adventurous. On the two sunny 20+ degree days we had recently, I left the people door open so they could step out if they wanted -- or just have the feeling of space -- no takers.

I guess they stayed mostly on my shoveled path, anyway.

The darker one standing on the deck is the correct color, dark red with dark smokey blue lacing. These breeder Wyandottes made my feed store SLW's look pathetic. I . . . only kept the one in the picture above because she lets my grand daughter lug her around.

Those are some beautiful chicken breeds there. Perhaps I need a few new breeds as well. I hate how chicken math works! My coop will not just expand as my hen numbers grow. Drats! I have 8 hens and 2 roosters. One roo will have to go and two hens will be hitting 4 y.o. this spring. That means I'll have only 6 hens and 1 roo in a coop that will comfortably hold 16 birds. Ten more chickens would NOT be compulsive chicken math, right?

 

[digitS']

They are fine looking chickens and that isn't nearly as muddy a yard for them as I might have suspected, Cane'.

Have we talked about this before? Whatever are you going to do for new names?!

Will you go for something a little different like, 'pain?? I will go ahead and suggest a few but I'm limited in creativity. It had better be a group effort, I'm thinkin'!

Hasn't there been a "Sugar" -cane? How about: Hat'n'? Blow the feathers off of "Co." What could "Chi" be up to? They are all a little "Ar" . . .

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

My chickens are so old, I'm signing them up for SS. Got to get a couple of new hens.